Who we are at Dean Cabinetry.
We’re a family-owned and operated company, providing Connecticut homes with beautifully designed stock, custom, and semi-custom kitchens for more than 25 years. Our team’s experience allows us to provide the best value cabinet for any kitchen project. We take the time to assist you through every part of the design and build process to ensure you and your family have a stunning space to enjoy for years to come.
What we do at Dean Cabinetry.
Stock, Custom & Semi-Custom Cabinets
From custom, furniture-grade cabinetry to affordable yet fashionable stock cabinetry, we provide the best value for Connecticut home renovation projects.
Personalized Design & Service
Our kitchen design team takes the time to get to know you, your lifestyle and style preferences to create your unique design that will improve the look, function, safety and value of your kitchen.
Expert craftsmen
Our professional installation crew will expertly place your cabinets into your kitchen, treating your home with the utmost respect, and ensuring a perfect fit.
Decades of experience have allowed us to hone our process to ensure a quality kitchen build.
Our team will gather information about your project through the Discovery Form or by scheduling a Discovery call.
We’ll set up a showroom or virtual meeting to discuss:
Kitchen Layout and Ideas
Cabinet Construction Methods and Cost Categories
Timing Needs for Cabinetry
Why choose Dean Cabinetry as a partner? Check out our custom cabinetry shop tour.
To move on to Budgeting, we’ll need appliance selections and rough dimensions of your space.
Once we’ve had the opportunity to understand the basics of your kitchen project, we want to work on determining your budget. This stage of our process isn’t about nailing down the exact cost and design of your kitchen, it is more about providing you with options and explaining what the value of each option is.
To start, your designer will prepare and email you multiple budget options along with some proposed meeting times. Typically, we budget each project with an option for each cabinetry level; stock, semi-custom and fully custom. These cabinetry levels are more determined on finish, style, and size attributes rather than quality. We work with only the best stock cabinetry manufacturers.
Once you review the budget options and ask questions about each, our designer will have a better idea on how to start crafting your new kitchen design.
Our rule of thumb is once we invest about 5 hours into the Discovery and Budgeting phase, we will ask for a verbal commitment to use us as your kitchen cabinet partners. Are you happy with us and the budget options provided? If yes, let’s get to into Design!
Design is where we dive into the finite details of your project. Your designer will review your layout in detail to answer questions like; Does anything need to be moved to improve movement and functionality in your kitchen? Do you prefer drawers or rollouts? Do you need any cabinet accessories? Will your island be a different finish than the rest of your cabinetry?
There will be phone calls, emails, and meetings. You will work with your designer to turn your vision into a reality.
This is also where other designers, contractors, and service providers may get involved so that we can plan your project thoroughly.
The ordering phase of our process is when your cabinetry gets made, either in-house for custom cabinetry pieces, or by our trusted stock & semi-custom suppliers. We go through each cabinet, double-checking the measurements, as well as making notes and specifications for the provider. For our custom cabinetry, we specify the exact details of your project so that our shop can build exactly what you’ve ordered.
Lead times for cabinetry can vary. Your lead time will likely begin when you place your deposit. Stock cabinetry can be delivered the fastest, sometimes in as short as 4 weeks, and as long as 6 weeks. Semi-custom cabinetry can be 6 to 10 weeks. Custom cabinetry is usually 10 to 12 weeks.
During this lead time is the opportunity for you or your contractor to make other modifications to the space such as plumbing, electrical, flooring, framing etc.
The most exciting and fulfilling part, installation!
When your cabinetry is ordered, you will receive an email from your designer introducing you to our scheduling coordinator. The scheduling coordinator will be organizing the installation and completion of your project.
We will put a tentative installation date on the calendar depending on your cabinet and project timeline. This date can remain flexible to accommodate any contractor work that is happening during the ordering stage.
A member of our follow-up team will reach out to you to congratulate you on your project completion. We will ask if we can come for a visit. If you are willing, we will set a date, and meet at your newly completed project location.
With your permission, we’d love to take photos of your new kitchen to add to our website and our social media platforms to help future clients see what is possible for their kitchen. We may also use your review to help clients understand the products and services they can expect by choosing Dean Cabinetry.
Resources for your kitchen project from the experts at Dean Cabinetry.
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